Helen Clark and Michael Cullen have overseen a return to orthodox economic management. Listener: 30 December, 2006. Keywords: Political Economy & History; Asked to comment on Helen Clark’s performance, Roger Kerr said the Prime Minister had presided “over the continuation of the economic directions that the country moved towards in the 1980s…
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New Zealand’s nationbuilders aren’t just figures from the distant past. Listener: 16 December, 2006. Keywords: Political Economy & History; Many myths portray one’s ancestors as giants, titans beside whom their descendants, including the myth-tellers, are tiny. Did I fall into that trap in my book The Nationbuilders, about New Zealanders who shaped…
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Paper for the conference “Alcohol: Evidence-based Impacts and Interventions”, sponsored by the Center for Alcohol Studies, of the Health System Research Institute and the Department of Mental Health, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand, held 13 -14 December, 2006 in Bangkok. Keywords: Health; This paper is dedicated, with affection and respect, to the…
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Are public-private partnerships the next problem? Listener: 2 December, 2006. Keywords: Business & Finance At the launch of Treasury veteran Richard Shallcrass’s memoir Family Silver, David Caygill, who had been one of Shallcrass’s Finance Ministers, rejected the suggestion in David Lange’s autobiography that there might have been corruption in the privatising of state assets. Shallcrass, who…
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